From Day One - Learning How To Be A Speed Reader
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Dr. Jay Polmar, the founder of www.speedread.org , taught classes in colleges and universities for 16 years.
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We were discussing how to read a newspaper in my introductory speed reading lesson the other night. I always teach my students to read the first and last paragraph in jou al articles and newspaper human interest stories (along with headings and visual aids) and the first paragraph in news articles. One of my students said that she had noticed that the writers in our newspaper had started to get creative and were not getting to any facts until about the third paragraph. So the next morning I did a survey by reading all of the first paragraphs of all the articles in our paper.
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